I don't Naruto or D. Gray man. There.
"…"
"…"
"'Let me lead' you said."
"…"
"'I'll get us there in no time' you said."
"…"
"'Oh, no we're not lost, this is just a short cut, Kitsune!' you said."
"…"
"Well?"
"…I'm sorry."
"I'm never letting you lead. Ever again."
"Thanks."
"How could I be so stupid? Why do I keep forgetting?"
"…Please shut up."
"…"
"Forgive me, please?"
"…Fine."
"…"
"…"
"AHHHHH! K-Kitsune! A cat just ate Tim!"
"N-N-NANI?"
The wind whistled and howled, shaking the trees and battering pedestrians, causing those who weren't already inside to hurry to a nearby shop or house. The cobblestone streets were littered with swirling leaves, which danced around the feet of a young girl police officer, standing in front of a broken down church. Her hair was tossed in the gust, as her sharp eyes watched the church before sighing and turning to a lamppost behind her.
"C'mon, Charles!" She shouted, addressing the shivering policeman hiding behind the pole.
"H-Haven't you heard, Moe? This church is haunted!" Charles whimpered, hunkering down a little more.
"Pah! I can't believe I'm hearing this from a police officer." Moe shook her head. "It's probably just some horrible rumor. We need to clear it up before it can cause any more damage."
"Okay, I guess…" Charles said finally, rising from his hiding place to go join his partner, who was quickly putting her long blonde hair into her police hat.
The church itself was unremarkable, Moe thought, glancing around at the crumbling stone as they walked through the halls. Ghost stories had never bothered her, and they wouldn't now. This church isn't haunted. She thought firmly to herself. And I'll prove it. Besides, Clare would never… "AH!"
Moe practically jumped out of her skin and twisted around. "Charles!"
Purring at the feet of the terrified man was a small, white and brown cat.
"Oh, it's just a cat." Moe murmured, gently pulling it up into her lap. "A really fat one, too."
Suddenly, there was the sound of screeching and flapping reverberating off the walls, and down at the end of the corridor they could see a flock of big, black bats heading for them.
Charles covered his head and backed away, while Moe watched fascinated from her position on the floor, still clutching the cat. She was quite shocked when a blood red hand with a fingerless glove reached out for her, and she tried to escape the grip, but was too slow. She let out a soft cry as she was carried away from Charles, clutched in a blood-red grip. Oh dear, would she be the next victim?
"Moe, are you al—Moe?" Charles blinked in surprise when he saw that his partner had disappeared. "MOE!"
"Oh please, stop shouting!" The policeman jumped five feet in the air, before turning and seeing a strange blonde-haired boy with a black bandanna covering his head moving quickly towards him. "By the way, have you seen a big creepy bunch of bats anywhere?"
Charles nodded slowly, still shocked.
"Did you see where they went? My brother gets lost at the drop of a hat, I swear, and this place is practically a maze!" The boy sneezed, and rubbed his nose, still staring at Charles. "By the way, did you see a cat anywhere?"
Charles nodded, before finding his voice. "I…I don't know where they went, but I did see a cat."
"Oh. I see. Got to go find my brother, now. Sayonara!"
"Wait!" Charles cried, grabbing the boy's arm. "My partner…disappeared."
The boy blinked in surprise before grinning. "Hey! How 'bout you help me find my brother, and I'll help you find your partner!"
Charles nodded, and quickly followed the strange blonde deeper into the church.
"Gotcha!" Moe heard as she sat slumped in a chair, holding the cat close and trying to look unconscious. "Wait, a person? What're you doing here…"
Moe very quickly removed her handcuffs and snapped a cuff around the boy's wrist, straightening her hat in annoyance. "Why, you! Who are you?"
"I'm sorry! I was just trying to catch the cat, I didn't realize…" The strange child raised his hands up. "Look, I was just trying to catch the cat. I'm just a traveler…" That was when she caught sight of the strange looking kid. He wore a long coat and a while bandanna, with two fingerless gloves. He had white hair and beautiful silver-gray eyes, and was extremely pale. Perhaps the strangest thing about him, though, was the long scar on his eye and the blood-red hand.
Five minutes later, the kid was tied awkwardly to the chair. "Oh, we had no idea this town was haunted… While I was walking past here, this cat ate one of our valuable possessions! We kind of went after it." At her incredulous expression he started to panic. "No really! It was our master's so we couldn't afford to lose it!"
Moe rolled her eyes. "Oh, yeah? And just where is this master of yours?"
"Um, I think he disappeared somewhere in India…" The boy muttered, looking down, before turning to the cat angrily. "This is all your fault!"
Moe felt something nagging at the back of her head, like something was wrong but she couldn't quite tell what it was…Finally, she found it. "Wait, who's this 'we'?"
"Oh, I travel with my brother, Kitsune! He was following me just a few minutes ago…" The kid said softly, furrowing his silver eyebrows.
"Hm. Well, I need to go find my partner and your brother, so you stay there!" Moe commanded, pointing a finger at the kid. "Wait. What does your brother look like?"
"He's got blonde hair, real bright—wait, he has a bandanna over that…and he's got these really blue eyes and these funky whisker marks on his cheeks! He's about an inch taller than I am, and he's wearing a dark orange coat."
"Okay." Moe nodded, turning away and going to go look for her partner—and his brother.
Rat-a-tat! Ra-tat-tat-tat-a-tat!
Moe's eyes widened when she heard the telltale sound of a high powered gun, and another sound of an explosion. She gasped, "What's happening?" Before running out the door, her gun in one hand. "Stay there!" Moe shouted.
"Run, you idiot!" Someone shouted, which made Moe hurry quicker towards the commotion.
What she came upon shocked her to the core.
There was a blonde boy with a bandanna on his head, holding some sort of shield in front of him, her partner Charles quivering behind him. The voice—she now assumed it was the child, shouted again. "What are you still doing here? I can't hold him off for long! GO!"
Charles finally reacted, spinning and lunging for the stairs where Moe was. He only increased his speed when he noticed his blonde-haired partner. "Moe!"
That's when the white haired kid appeared from the top of the stairs, quickly jumping over the railing and joining the blonde—now Moe assumed he was Kitsune, and chased after whatever had been shooting at them.
Kitsune deactivated his shield and sighed, putting the small black box that had been producing the defense into his coat pocket. Then, he turned and addressed the two shivering police officers. "Don't you guys worry 'bout a thing, Allen'll take care of it." He chuckled and asked, "Say, where's that cat? We kind of need Tim back."
"Tim?" Moe asked stupidly.
"He's our golem. Well, he's our master's golem, but master sort of gave Tim to us, so…" Kitsune shrugged.
"The cat's up there…" Moe nodded towards the top of the stairs, still slightly shocked. "Why…Who was shooting at Charles?"
Charles shivered, drawing his coat tighter around his shoulders.
"Oh, that was an akuma. Allen takes care of those sorts of things." Kitsune scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I can't."
Charles opened his mouth to reply when there was that noise again—the awful rat-tat-tat-tat of the big gun that'd been shooting at Charles, and the big man froze. He opened his mouth in surprise, before his body was covered with strange pentacle and he evaporated into dust. Kitsune cursed and activated his shield, throwing himself in front of Moe before she could get killed too.
A smoke began oozing from the dust, and Kitsune put his bandanna over his face as Allen jogged over to them. "Sorry, Kitsune, he got—" The white-haired boy froze when he spotted the clothes on the floor and sighed. "I was too late, huh." It wasn't really a question.
"You can't save everyone." Kitsune murmured.
That's when Moe realized it was getting hard to breath, and she gasped and tried to pull more air into her lungs. The two brothers noticed, and Allen took his bandanna off and pressed it to her nose and mouth. "The gas from the corpse is toxic. Be careful." Then he turned to Kitsune. "Don't worry, I'll get the akuma next time."
As Moe fell backwards in her head, into the darkness, she was slightly confused. An akuma…?
"Oh, Moe! You're awake!" A cheerful voice called as Moe glanced around the room uncomprehendingly.
"Where am I?" She muttered, putting a hand to her head as the man grabbed her arm and began dragging her along.
"The station! Perfect timing." Rapping the door, the man called, "Detective! Officer Hesse is awake!"
There was a gruff, "Come in."
"Oh, that's right! Charles…"
"We know. We're questioning the suspect right now."
Moe blinked when she spotted the 'suspect'.
It was Allen, hands cuffed in front of him, cat lounging lazily in his arms. His bandanna was gone, displaying his gleaming white hair to the world, and he was grinning in bemusement, as though he couldn't quite comprehend that he was sitting in a station being questioned as a suspect for a murder. Honestly Moe was a little shocked, too.
"Name's Allen Walker." The detective began. "No address. Nationality unknown. And he's a minor. Then, the pudgy man slammed his hands down onto the table. "We know you did it!"
"I said I didn't do it!" Allen squeaked, flailing in his handcuffs. "Why am I being interrogated? All I did was bring an officer to the station!"
"You were at the church! That makes you a suspect!" The detective roared, spitting saliva everywhere.
That's when Moe remembered the other boy—hadn't Allen had a brother, Kitsune? "What about—" Her mouth snapped shut when Allen gave her a look and shook his head.
The detective ignored her and continued, grabbing Allen's blood red hand. "Besides, look at your hand! It's red with blood!"
"No, it's always been that way…" Allen protested, trying to tug his hand back.
The glove fell off.
"Holy—" The detective recoiled, staring in horror at the cross that'd been imbedded into the child's hand. Moe's eyes widened surprise, blinking at the strange appearance of his deformed arm. It was absolutely hideous, red and covered in strange, bulging veins. "What the—blech! Aren't you in pain from putting a cross on your hand? We've got a lunatic in our midst!" Allen was staring at the detective with a resigned look, as though this had occurred many times and he was deciding to stop complaining about it. "You shout take better care of the body your parents have given you!"
Moe decided she couldn't just stand for this anymore, since she knew the boy was innocent. "Excuse me!" The detective looked back (read: glared) at her. "I was with him until the incident occurred."
"What?" The detective jumped, obviously displeased with having his number one suspect taken away from him.
"Sir, there was evidence of a high-caliber weapon found at the scene. This boy only has a cat." Another officer said, coming up behind the detective. "We have yet to find the weapon that may've been used."
The detective looked like he was contemplating this information, gritting and grinding his teeth angrily as his pudgy face slowly reddened. "Why did you have to faint, officer Moe Hesse!"
Moe dropped her eyes to the ground. "Sorry, sir."
That was when Allen opened his mouth to speak, before blinking slightly and shutting his mouth again, and repeating the process.
"Unbelievable! You should've stayed awake no matter what! I can't believe that you didn't see the suspect even though you were at the crime scene!"
Allen opened his mouth again, looked down, then slumped in his chair and sighed. Moe was a little confused. What on earth was wrong with the boy?
Okay, second chapter! Long…Anyway, as you can see, it's the introduction of Allen! Soon, you'll have your introduction of "Kitsune" Naruto.
The reason Kitsune doesn't use his innocence is because he doesn't know he has one. This will be explained later.
Thank you ddcj1990 and DragonLord577 for reviewing first!
Ddcj1990: I can't have Allen paired with Lena-chan, because in the challenge it stated that Allen was with Lenalee.
Thank you again!
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